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The Unfinished Swan (Teaser)

The Unfinished Swan (Teaser)

Featuring artful animation, and gameplay in which you splatter paint onto white surfaces to reveal your surroundings, this offbeat title looks like one to watch for when it hits the PS3 later this year.

Sensu Capacitive Brush

Sensu Capacitive Brush

Similar to the Flow brush, Artist Hardware’s Sensu works great with the iPad or any device with a capacitive touch screen. It also has a rubber stylus nib on the other end, making it more versatile.

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A Perfect Vacuum

A Perfect Vacuum

Australian painter Jeremy Geddes often uses space travelers in urban environments as a motif in his hyperreal/surreal work. The results are amazing dreamlike images like these.

Yolk

Yolk

Similarly to his unpeeled tangerine painting, artist Duane Keiser makes omelettes art from his broken egg in this progressive, time-lapse painting, shot one day at a time, then animated.

Julie Bender’s Pyrography

Julie Bender’s Pyrography

Julie Bender doesn’t paint with pigments; her tool of choice is heat. She specializes in pyrography – a technique that involves using a heated implement to scorch materials like wood, paper or leather.

Interactive Starry Night

Interactive Starry Night

Digital artist Petros Vrellis took Van Gogh’s classic post-impressionist painting and turned it into a moving work of art, complete with touch, gesture and sound-based interactions.

Illustrations by Sophie Blackall

Illustrations by Sophie Blackall

Sophie Blackall paints images of loves lost and found. Her art can be found in New York’s subway trains, in her book Missed Connections inspired by Craigslist, or in poster form on Etsy.

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Still Life

Still Life

We can’t think of anything more boring in the art world than a still life painting of fruit. But digital artist Scott Garner livens things up a bit with his interactive version and its motion sensing frame.

Goldfish Salvation

Goldfish Salvation

Riusuke Fukahori creates incredible depth in his artworks by painting a layer at a time onto acrylic resin, until a 3-dimensional image is formed, sort of like how 3D printers work. More photos here.

WHAT’s Shop Custom Converse

WHAT’s Shop Custom Converse
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Offering intricately handpainted sneakers and high-tops, Bangkok, Thailand’s WHAT’s Shop customizes shoes with everyone from Daft Punk to Chucky, and Darth Vader to The Dark Knight.

PVC Pipe Sculptures

PVC Pipe Sculptures

Korean artist Kang Duck-Bong creates these sculptures which look like they got hit with Photoshop’s “Wind” filter, using only pieces of PVC pipe, painted with urethane paint.

Persol: Made by Hand

Persol: Made by Hand

Luxury eyewear company Persol gives us an all too brief and fast tour of the process of manufacturing and assembling of their Steve McQueen sunglasses. Another proof of the value of handcrafted goods.

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Keys Wallet Cellphone Doormat

Keys Wallet Cellphone Doormat
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A doormat for forgetful folks. Made of 100% coconut fiber with latex backing, stenciled with latex paint. It doesn’t come with a wind chime that reminds you to look down though. Flip 180° for best use.

Guido Daniele: Hand Art

Guido Daniele: Hand Art

Guido Daniele specializes in hand and body painting. Here are some of his trompe-l’Å“il animal hand art. They’re so good even when you’ve broken the illusion you’ll still appreciate the painting.

Paper People

Paper People

Artist Nick Georgiou uses discarded newspapers and books to create humanoid sculptures and paintings, each with a personality all its own. Each one is sort of a memento to the gradual death of paper.

World’s Largest 3D Street Art

World’s Largest 3D Street Art

Street artists 3D Joe & Max were commissioned by Reebok to make the world’s largest and longest piece of 3D street art. It took them 7 days to finish the impressive 12490 ft² painting.

Red Vines Portraits

Red Vines Portraits

It’s not the only edible medium ever used, but we’d rather eat Jason Mecier’s paintings made from licorice ropes. Though we’re only eating the Red Vines, and leaving the black licorice behind.

FPS Simulator: Making Of

FPS Simulator: Making Of

The Gadget Show explains the technology behind their $650,000 Battlefield 3 Ultimate FPS simulator, from the projector dome to the paintball guns. Skip to 9:20 if you can’t wait to see it in action.

The Ultimate FPS Simulator

The Ultimate FPS Simulator

With motion tracking, an omni-directional treadmill and a 360° projection dome, this BF3 arena even shoots players with paintballs when hit. Watch UK Channel 5’s The Gadget Show on 10/24 for more.

Oramics Visual Synthesizer

Oramics Visual Synthesizer

In 1957, Daphne Oram created the Oramics synth, which interprets sound from painted film strips. The 1957 prototype was recently found and is now on exhibit in London. Soon to be an iPhone app, too.

Ford Door Edge Protector

Ford Door Edge Protector

A simple upgrade for car doors that automatically pops up to prevent chipping the paint of off the adjacent vehicle. Let’s hope it doesn’t lull people into swinging their car doors open willy-nilly.

Photoshop Elements 10

Photoshop Elements 10

Adds more quick and easy fixes and effects, including resizing without distortion, paintable effects and photo style matching, as well as easier search and sharing functions. More here and here.

Chalkboard Skull

Chalkboard Skull
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Perfect for tracking the next person on your hit list, this plastic skull model has been covered with enamel chalkboard paint for these and other random evil thoughts. Totally beats sticky notes.

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